Mark Roberts

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
5 Sep 2036
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442 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

15 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market15 Jan 2035

Terms done: Mycael is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and West Ham United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Nottingham Forest is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad15 Jan 2035

Mark Roberts damages knee ligaments — 16 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market15 Jan 2035

Nottingham Forest turn down Cambridge United for Carlos Alcaraz

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2035

The paperwork begins on Antonín Kinský

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Nottingham Forest have done the hard part with Ipswich Town, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2035

An offer of $5.5M for Giorgio Scalvini

Nottingham Forest have gone to Newcastle United with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2035

Door shut on El Hadji Malick Diouf

Nottingham Forest asked and Aston Villa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market15 Jan 2035

Emilio Lawrence attracts admirers

The name of Emilio Lawrence has come up in conversations Nottingham Forest were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings15 Jan 2035

Neco Williams, 33, rolls back the years — 8.23

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.23 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market15 Jan 2035

Bingourou Kamara hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nottingham Forest can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

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441 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

8 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Jan 2035

The knee: Mark Roberts out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nottingham Forest lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market8 Jan 2035

Nottingham Forest turn down Barcelona for Daniel Dappa

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market8 Jan 2035

Luke Pearce has said yes to Lincoln City

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Nottingham Forest have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market8 Jan 2035

Alfie Doughty puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nottingham Forest, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2035

Nottingham Forest bid $5.3M for El Hadji Malick Diouf

The offer went to Aston Villa this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2035

Bournemouth tell Nottingham Forest: Lukáš Horníček is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad8 Jan 2035

Words exchanged at Nottingham Forest

Emilio Lawrence and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market8 Jan 2035

Brighton watching Mirko Topić

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nottingham Forest have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad8 Jan 2035

A move Diego Vianello would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Diego Vianello is living that version at Nottingham Forest, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

440 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

1 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Jan 2035

Mark Roberts damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market1 Jan 2035

Emilio Lawrence asks to leave Nottingham Forest

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match30 Dec 2034

A hiding for Nottingham Forest

Beaten 0‑3 by Liverpool, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match30 Dec 2034

Liverpool end the Nottingham Forest run at 11

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 11 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Market1 Jan 2035

Luke Pearce is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nottingham Forest is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad1 Jan 2035

Tempers go at Nottingham Forest

Emilio Lawrence was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market1 Jan 2035

No place for Neco Williams in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Neco Williams has his answer from Nottingham Forest; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout1 Jan 2035

Jaouen Hadjam gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad1 Jan 2035

A row about effort at Nottingham Forest

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sam Curtis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief